Have Ghanaians Robbed Peter To Pay Paul?

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• Kwobia,Toronto 12 years ago

  Has it ever occurred to Darko et all that Nana Akkufo-Addo could have just as easily lost the review?What are the chances of most of the justices reversing themselves?Let's be realistic.

  Has it ever occurred to Darko et all that Nana Akkufo-Addo could have just as easily lost the review?What are the chances of most of the justices reversing themselves?Let's be realistic.

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• Your Sista, Nadia Buri 12 years ago

  How could one regime do this?
  
  Take care of your business and responsibility to the best of your ability, and you would be rewarded with $5 million dollars a year for ten years, and $200,000.00 thereafter for the rest of yo ...
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  How could one regime do this?
  
  Take care of your business and responsibility to the best of your ability, and you would be rewarded with $5 million dollars a year for ten years, and $200,000.00 thereafter for the rest of your life by Mo Ibrahim Foundation, and this NDC administration is taking us from B+ credit rating to B!
  
  What a way to win such Prize award.
  
  So the question for the Friday is, among the 25 million population is there any candidate who can be a legitimate cogent contestant for the award, post 2016?
  
  Tweaaa!
  
  Just take care of your own people, enforce rule of law, create employment for your own people, better their lot, make sure your economy is just sustainable and you are really set for life!
  
  Yet, they are taking us from B+ to B credit rating?
  
  One step forward, four steps back - na who cause am this Friday?
  
  Need I comment about the importation of $6 million dollars fake condoms by the ministry of health?
  
  If we are not putting taxes on condoms, Wellington boots, fishing nets and outboard motors, the health ministry is importing fake condoms; what else is new?
  
  Let your voice be heard and your vote counts in 2016. The system is totally compromised.
  
  Better must come.
  
  It will be brave of us as a country to apologize to Dr. Bawumia and beg him on all fours to take the economy management back because if the country has to wait til 2016, ha!

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• Your Sista, Nadia Buri 12 years ago

  This administration don't have to re-invent the wheel to win this Mo Ibrahim prize award because Sydney has done your homework for you, and all you have to do is submit or implement them - check it out:
  
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  This administration don't have to re-invent the wheel to win this Mo Ibrahim prize award because Sydney has done your homework for you, and all you have to do is submit or implement them - check it out:
  
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  I have heard some very good and realistic solutions from many Ghanaians, offering advice for free, not holding partisan ground. So where are we going wrong?
  
  We have abandoned so many good solutions that I hesitate to think that there could be a new one anywhere on the shelves of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning. Why do we still not have the right to tailor a Private Member Bill in Parliament? Why is the Attorney General still not an independent unit? Why is Decentralization still a problem? Why have we not started implementing the Constitutional Review Commission recommendations? Why do we still not vote for our DCEs and MCEs? Why can CHRAJ still not prosecute its findings but can only refer to the AG? Why do we still not have a Freedom of Information Act? Why do we still have social protection programs we cannot afford? Why are the streets of Accra still potholed and without paving? Why are interest rates still so high? And why are we still transacting with so much cash?
  
  I could go on and on, but really, WHY?
  
  Source: Casely Hayford.
  
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  Better luck next year.

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• G. K. Berko 12 years ago

  Bawumia was a Deputy Governor of BoG. Has he pointed out anything he did right there on his own initiative that strongly shows his commitment to usurping the crony capitalism invading our Economy? Would he have had the balls ...
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  Bawumia was a Deputy Governor of BoG. Has he pointed out anything he did right there on his own initiative that strongly shows his commitment to usurping the crony capitalism invading our Economy? Would he have had the balls to fight off any unwise decisions by the President should he have won the Elections alongside Akufo-Addo?
  
  
  It is not that the Economists in current Govt do not know the right things to do. It is simply that they do not want to do them for their parochial selfish reasons. Bawumia would have been compromised by his boss' imposition to play to the choir.
  
  Long Live Ghana!!!

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• BOY KOFI 12 years ago

  Let me make it clear here,Nana Addo knows that he lost the élections alright but tried to use Administrative lapses in the system to steal the will of the people.The petitioners could not tender any fraud case.Irregularities ...
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  Let me make it clear here,Nana Addo knows that he lost the élections alright but tried to use Administrative lapses in the system to steal the will of the people.The petitioners could not tender any fraud case.Irregularities do not mean fraud and clerical mistakes do not mean fraud.Nana Addo himself said the election was fraud but why couldn't he tender any fraud case in court?If the élection was fraud,why did Nana Addo want the Supreme Court to declare him president with the same fraud élections?The judges did the right thing by throwing the fraud petition away.Don't forget Philip Addison,the petitioners lawyer warned that the petitioners will fail because they are asking the Supreme Court judges to do what no African country has done.Please don't blame the judges,don't blame any peace seeker,don't blame the International community but blame Nana Addo himself for trying to set Ghana ablazed.Thank God we had wise judges who saw the fraudulent tactics of Nana Addo and saved Ghana,our beloved country.

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• NPP 419 12 years ago

  Well said Boy Kofi

  Well said Boy Kofi

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• Nii Ashitey 12 years ago

  Throughout the petition hearing,Dr Ampaw had presented a front of neutrality during his many tv appearances.But his appearance on the DI debate and his subsequent utterances had exposed him as an aggrieved and bias person who ...
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  Throughout the petition hearing,Dr Ampaw had presented a front of neutrality during his many tv appearances.But his appearance on the DI debate and his subsequent utterances had exposed him as an aggrieved and bias person who wanted only one outcome in the petition trial.My fear is that he is causing more damage to his reputation with this petty bickering than he might imagine.

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• G. K. Berko 12 years ago

  I strongly take exception to any attempt to blame the dignitaries for any likely errors that the Justices might have made in their verdict.
  
  If anyone has to blame, it has to be those who even before the Elections were call ...
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  I strongly take exception to any attempt to blame the dignitaries for any likely errors that the Justices might have made in their verdict.
  
  If anyone has to blame, it has to be those who even before the Elections were calling for violence to resolve any issues arising from the Elections. And that would include Akufo-Addo himself. His "yen Akanfo de, ...'All die be die' " mantra initiated in the spirit of Kyereponi/Atewa fracas was no benign threat for any sensible patriotic dignitary to ignore.
  
  He Akufo-Addo made his own bed that he later slept in it. The various life-threatening utterances from some of his lieutenants and some miscreant NDC members, in reaction, clearly indicate there were plausible dangers to land Ghana into a bloodbath after the Election results.
  
  The fact that the threats were averted is no excuse to deny the authenticity of those threats. So, if the dignitaries in their wisdom found a way to commit both sides to Peace, no one must blame them for any errors the Justices might have made.
  
  Besides, has anyone considered the possibility of cyclical review requests which means the NDC would have also requested for review after any NPP review that might be made, unless there were statutes of limitation to impede subsequent requests?
  
  Has anyone realized that any backing out of an initial lust for violence to resolve the Electoral problems by Akufo-Addo could have been motivated by a certain universal pressure that he could not resist and not by his sheer statesmanship?
  
  People seem to dwell on their conveniently chosen subset of possibilities to justify their opinions but not the entirety of possibilities.
  
  So, why not just give the benefit of doubt to the 9 Justices and simply give them their due credit? Similarly, the dignitaries did what they did based on what they perceived, along with the majority of Ghanaian Public that saw a real threat to our Country looming.
  
  If anyone who wants to review the case for intellectual reasons should not forget the part of the Petition case that could have been used to either augment or diminish the case for either side but the process did not I reach within the time given. For example, how genuine were the Pink sheet evidence produced by both sides? And could there have been over-voting and other mistakes in the Petitioners' stronghold?
  
  There is no doubt in my mind that the Justices ruled thus to save our Nation and the dignitaries who got the 2 sides to commit to Peace did so for the best of reasons. The question of our political maturity is answered by the intervention of the SC and the dignitaries. Everything else is just exercise in suppositions.
  
  Long Live Ghana!!!

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• kaketonti 12 years ago

  The acid test is that elections are not won in court.

  The acid test is that elections are not won in court.

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• OTCHERE DARKO 12 years ago

  Are you implying that the framers of the 1992 Constitution are fools?
  
  And that the Constitution should be ignored?

  Are you implying that the framers of the 1992 Constitution are fools?
  
  And that the Constitution should be ignored?

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